Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released the following statement this afternoon regarding the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal.

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

Among the proposal’s backers is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, to whom Cruz is often compared. This statement shows that there is significant daylight between the positions of the two young, Hispanic Republicans.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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You know, everyone says we have a “broken immigration system”. We don’t. It might not be targeted well, and it probably doesn’t purr like a Porsche, but it basically works for the numbers it is supposed to work for. A “broken border control system” is the real issue. The illegals have nothing to do with the immigration system per se–they chose to ignore it because they couldn’t get their way.

It’s like saying if 10,000 people crash the stands at next week’s Super Bowl that there is a “ticket allocation problem”. No, that worked–just that. 10,000 did not approve of the result. What the Super Bowl would actually have is not a “customer not getting his tickets” problem, but a “gate security” problem. Two seperate things.

If our government cannot efficiently resolve basic questions of justice like this, we would be better off in a state of nature, because that government can’t be trusted not to be malelevolent. You give the illegals what they want, it’s an injustice, an unfairness. Period.

To reiterate–our immigration system works, because we have people actually legally immigrating in the numbers we said we wanted, and which had business input. It is the extras comng on their own that are the issue, and that is not an mmigration problem, but a horder problem.

Example–The government takes money from me, as taxes. Those taxes support government welfare programs. If someone potentially eligible for those programs but not yet enrolled comes into my house and steals more, it is not a “taxes” issue, but an issue of breaking and entering, pure and simple. The tax system is not broken, my window is.

And the fact that the above arguments resonate only with Republicans reiterates to me that Democrats have a serious problem with the rule of law, that the MSM does not care, and that a different form of government (same, just changed geographic encompassment) is without a doubt more likely to secure my liberties. If I had a vote lke Scotland is going to get, I’d take it. Period. Democrats do not care about the rule of law, and I thus cannot trust them.

I talked to Senator Cruz’s office this afternoon wondering when he would make a statement and what he would say.

Ted Cruz’s position has consistantly been “Seal the border and then we will talk about the rest of it.” Obviously, that has not changed. He does not support a “reward” system for being able to dodge the ICE/BP agents until McLame and Gramnesty work some deal (i.e. a sell out of their conservative base) with Democrats

Is E-Verify a requirement?
What are the enforcement mechanisms, do they have any teeth?
What makes anyone think this Administration will enforce the law?
Cost impact to Obamacare and every other entitlement program?
Border is still wide open in areas, do anyone think this will change?